"The Gilded Warrior" is a song in Ghost of a Tale. It tells of the Battle of Periclave, the last battle in the War of the Green Flame, where the twelve heroes rallied the Rat army to defeat the Green Flame. Originally it depicted Duinlan as male. Out of respect for her ghost, Tilo changed the male pronouns in his songbook to female.
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And so at last to Vaelia's plain
The Emerald Fire's army came
There Periclave's shear walls stood lined
With the last of every living kind
Then from the ranks rode Duinlan, bold
Astride a salamander, skin like gold
His Her courage stirred hearts froze with dread
And others went where Duinlan led
Jahrlan and Nykto joined the fight
Black and white, and blue as night
Bathed in the bright abyss's light
Twelve Rats faced down the Green Flame's might
Then came the mighty clarion's call
And Duinlan, Jahrlan, Nykto, all
Did summon forth a hurricane
That quenched at last that dire flame